Lex Fridman Podcast
#183 – Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing
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() – Introduction
() – Planes and bridges
() – Writing a computer game from scratch
() – Programming competitions
() – Math is hard
() – Contact tracing that preserves privacy
() – Math Olympiad
() – Hard math problem
() – Is math discovered or invented?
() – Intelligence
() – Math education
() – How to learn math
() – Combinatorics
() – Voting trees
() – Stochastic coalescence
() – P=NP
() – Tolkien and WWII
() – Advice for young people
() – Meaning of life
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